Beepi
Built the App Store-featured app of a car marketplace valued at up to $560M.
- Problem
- Buying a car meant days of dealers and paperwork.
- Impact
- Built the first mobile app for $100,000 purchases in a tap; featured on the App Store for 6+ months.
- Beepi - Buy or sell a car with a single tap
(Mar 2015 - Jan 2017)
The first company to sell cars online with a single tap.
- Built the first mobile app that let people make purchases worth $100,000, a whole car, in a tap
- Head of Mobile and Data Science, head engineer, and hiring our engineers
- Wrote and launched the mobile app from scratch: featured on the App Store in 5 categories for 6+ months, with 5-star reviews, and covered by TechCrunch, Product Hunt, Bloomberg and the WSJ
- Built the data and pricing pipelines that predicted car prices from terabytes of data a day
- Beepi raised $150M from 35 investors and was valued at up to $560M (TechCrunch, 2017). It shut down in 2017.
Press: TechCrunch: $5M Series A led by Redpoint (2014) · TechCrunch: $60M round (2014) · TechCrunch: Buy a car on your phone with the new Beepi app (2015) · Fortune: SAIC invests (2016) · TechCrunch: Beepi merges with Fair (2016) · TechCrunch: Beepi sold for parts (2017)